Hutton Honors College

HHC Evening at the Theatre:
Tim Robbins' Dead Man Walking
And the Jury Experience in Death Penalty Cases

Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008 * SIGN-UP REQUIRED * Tickets: $12
6:45 p.m. Discussion and Refreshments at Honors House, 324 N. Jordan Ave.
7:30 p.m. Performance at Ruth N. Halls Theatre, followed by Curtain Talk

Could you be a fair and impartial juror in a death penalty case? Join death penalty attorney Lorinda Youngcourt and Marla Sandys, former chair of IU's Department of Criminal Justice, for a pre-performance program in which you will get a chance to experience a little of what it would be like to be a juror in a case where the defendant's life is at stake.

Named an Indiana Super Lawyer for the past five years, Lorinda Youngcourt has more than 20 years of experience representing defendants in capital cases. She is currently on the faculty of the National Criminal Defense College at Mercer Law School in Macon, Georgia, and the Indiana Public Defender Council Trial Practice Institute. Marla Sandys is one of the founding members of the Capital Jury Project, funded by the National Science Foundation. Her research focuses on why jurors in death penalty cases vote as they do, and whether they abide by the law in making these decisions. Currently, CJP is researching the role of race in capital punishment juries' deliberations. Sandys has also worked with faculty members of the IUPUI Law School on the Indiana Innocence Project, intended to free people who have been wrongfully convicted.

Following the discussion, Youngcourt and Sandys will join us for a performance of the play by Tim Robbins that is based on the powerful and provocative book by Sister Helen Prejean, a Catholic nun who served as the spiritual advisor for a death-row inmate in the months leading up to his execution. A curtain talk with members of the cast will follow the play.

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